The Timbers 2 youth movement continues, and on Thursday the second team added perhaps its most intriguing piece yet to cap off an offseason in which the focus has been bringing young, talented international players to Portland and into the club. Thursday morning, T2 signed 19-year-old Colombian forward Victor Manuel Arboleda from Colombian first-division side Deportivo Cali.
Arboleda joins a Timbers 2 team that has been bolstered this winter with young talent having youth-international experience, including Nigerian defensive midfielder Akinjide Idowu, Cameroonian forward and Barcelona Academy alumnus Alexis Meva, and Belgian youth international and central midfielder Dylan Damraoui.